Reporting feature
skycatminepokie opened this issue ยท 4 comments
Hello!
Devs have a hard time getting information about mod usage, including crashes. It would be cool to do something like OpenEye with anonymized reports. Is this within scope? I'd be interested in trying to build this up, run a backend on Oracle cloud free tier, and PRing a button.
Talking with others, another mod sounds like it won't get used, and this mod might fit it. I'm also considering if it's something that could be part of Prism, but that would be a lot harder to pull off. What do you think?
Thanks!
-skycat
I was thinking as a way for mod devs to get to it, but modpack creators would probably find it useful too. Honestly, I feel crash reports have too much information sometimes. I don't care what hardware the user is running on, I don't need the player's IP, and I don't need the name of their world. I just need to have the stack trace and maybe a mod list to find 99% of issues. Most of the time I just didn't test it thoroughly enough.
I plan to collect some anonimised data, currently statistics of log analsis, problematic frames. It's in my to:do.
Do I understand right this feature is for modpacks. Like user can press button to share report with modpack creators? And they can see it somewhere.
All in all I love this idea, but:
We need to think how to match GDPR as it saying data minimisation and complete reports with all links to the all logs can be against it even if user sharing by press of the button and accepting privacy policy. But just crash reports can give not enought data.
Neruina mod dev planning if not already done such thing. This discussion happened in Craftoria discord server.
If we can garant that stacktrace not incuding confidential info, it can be good part of anonimous statistics collection which I described in my initial message, which I'm planning to add.
If you make PR with it, it would be good.
Alright, I'll look into it. The main problem I see is getting it to the mod devs. Neruina does it by including a GitHub bot token in the mod (albeit heavily obfuscated). I'm looking at making a more robust solution. Some sort of web app maybe. Ambitious since I don't know any frontend, but it might work.

